Can't Seem to Come Down: American Sounds of 1968: Can't Seem To Come Down: The American Sounds Of 1968 / Various
Can't Seem to Come Down: American Sounds of 1968: Can't Seem To Come Down: The American Sounds Of 1968 / Various
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Artist: Can't Seem to Come Down: American Sounds of 1968
Label: Grapefruit
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929194809
Genre: Rock
Three CD set. Follow-up to Grapefruit's hugely popular US 1967 anthology 'March Of The Flower Children'. Hit singles, cult classics and tracks from 1968's key albums as the American music scene moved on from the Summer of Love. While psychedelia had been the dominant musical force in 1967, the scene fragmented the following year. Although many acts remained immersed in garage-punk and psychedelic pop, a growing number of heavily-amplified, blues-based hard rock bands like Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf and Iron Butterfly - all of whom enjoyed sizeable hit singles in 1968 - emerged to pave the way for what would develop into heavy metal. Manufactured pop in the form of bubblegum dominated the singles chart, The Byrds and other easy riders developed a country/rock hybrid, a phalanx of folk-based singer/songwriters came to the fore, while Bob Dylan and his occasional playmates The Band pioneered a more organic, rustic sound that would come to be known as Americana. Over four hours and 3 CDs, 'Can't Seem To Come Down: The American Sounds Of 1968' weaves together these various strands to provide a fascinating overview of the year. The set encompasses national and regional hit singles, unexpected flops (The Grateful Dead, The Left Banke), subsequently influential mavericks (Velvet Underground, Beefheart, Silver Apples) and vital cuts from many of the year's most keenly-awaited albums (Dylan, The Band, Mothers of Invention, The Byrds, Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, etc). It also feature a number of hugely collectable one-off singles from young provincial bands, who visited local studios to preserve their sound for posterity before the real world - and possibly the increasing conflict in Vietnam intervened. Including a 48-page booklet filled with biographical details, rare photos and quotes, 'Can't Seem To Come Down' is another essential Grapefruit purchase.
Tracks:
1.1 Fresh Garbage - Spirit
1.2 Come Alive – Things To Come
1.3 The Shoemaker Of Leatherwear Square – The Lemon Pipers
1.4 Come Ride, Come Ride – The Merry-Go-Round
1.5 Draft Morning – The Byrds
1.6 All Along The Watchtower-Bob Dylan
1.7 Here She Comes Now – TheVelvet Underground
1.8 No Regrets – Tom Rush
1.9 Everybody's Next One -Steppenwolf
1.10 Thing In 'E' – The Savage Resurrection
1.11 You Can't Erase A Mirror –Children Of The Mushroom
1.12 Which End Is Up – Diamond Rings
1.13 Words Of The Raven –Piece Kor
1.14 Who Needs The Peace
1.15 Corps – The Mothers Of Invention
1.16 Pretty Song From Psych-Out – Strawberry Alarm Clock
1.17 Three O'clock Merrian Webster Time – The Nomads
1.18 Strawberry Tuesday –Sidewalk Skipper Band
1.19 Silver Birch – Del Shannon
1.20 Delilah – Brian Hyland
1.21 You Are Your Only
1.22 Mystery – The Baroque Monthly
1.23 Freaky Girl – Spontaneous Corruption
1.24 The Garden Of Earthly
1.25 Delights – The United States Of America
1.26 Dedicated Music Man -Mortimer
1.27 Fields Of People – Ars Nova
1.28 The Setting Of Despair –Crystal Chandelier
1.29 Dark Star (Single Version) – The Grateful Dead
1.30 Tin Angel (Will You Ever Come Down) – Hearts And Flowers
2.1 When I Arrive – We The People
2.2 (Poor Old) Mr. Jensen -1910 Fruitgum Co.
2.3 Just A Taste – The Kaleidoscope
2.4 The Face – The Human Beinz
2.5 Eighteen Is Over The Hill – The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
2.6 Summer – Lemon Fog
2.7 Awake In A Dream – The Critters
2.8 Rupert White – Eternity's Children
2.9 Light Your Windows – Quicksilver Messenger Service 10 Three-Part Invention (Too Many Trees In The Forest) – The Phoenix Trolley
2.10 Laughing Stock - Love
2.11 Little Bird – The Beach Boys
2.12 Oscillations – Silver Apples
2.13 Shadows – The Electric Prunes
2.14 You're In My Mind – Graf Zepplin
2.15 Dark Is The Bark – The Left Banke
2.16 Cowboys And Indians – October Country
2.17 The Island – The Millennium
2.18 Wheel Of Changes – The Wind In The Willows
2.19 Lantern Gospel – The World Column
2.20 This Wheel's On Fire – The Band
2.21 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Single Edit) – Iron Butterfly
2.22 P. S. (Prognosis Stegnosis)-The Truth
2.23 Green Knight – The Movement
2.24 Paisley Haze – The Vectors
2.25 Never Sad – The Sunstone Lollypop
2.26 Trust – The Peppermint Trolley
2.27 Can't Seem To Come Down –Mother's Worry
3.1 Questions – Buffalo Springfield
3.2 Satisfy You (Single Mix) – The Seeds
3.3 Maypole – The Children
3.4 Johann Sebastian
3.5 Cheetah – The Yankee Dollar
3.6 Crystal Liaison – The Fugs
3.7 Everything's Changing -Kak
3.8 Feathers From Your Tree-Blue Cheer
3.9 Lasy Day On Earth –Velvet Haze
3.10 Daystar - Src
3.11 Mobius Trip - H. P.Lovecraft
3.12 Safe As Milk – Captain Beefheart ; His Magic Band
3.13 I'll Drive You From My Mind – The Fallen Angels
3.14 Mr. Tripp Wouldn't Listen – The Little Boy Blues
3.15 Back Of Your Mind -Nazz
3.16 Psychedelic Movement –The Ravelles
3.17 Crowd Pleaser – The Yellow Payges
3.18 I Want To Hold Your Hand (Alternative Take 2) – The Moving Sidewalks
3.19 Hell Will Take Care Of You – Brass Buttons
3.20 Turn Around – The Beau Brummels
3.21 Johnny Silver's Ride -Glad
3.22 Rich Man's Fable – Merrell Fankhauser ; H.M.S. Bounty
3.23 Crimson And Clover – Tommy James ; The Shondells
3.24 An Elegy – The Free Design
3.25 Can You Dig It – The Monkees
